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Aurora Díaz, Antonio Martín, Pilar Rallo and Raúl De la Rosa

Growers have obtained most of the current olive cultivars by empiric selection over centuries ( León et al., 2005 ). Several breeding programs are now devoted to releasing new cultivars better adapted to the actual trends in olive growing in

; Rainey and Griffiths, 2005 ). Wasonga et al. (2010) developed and tested in East Africa some heat-tolerant snap bean breeding lines that demonstrated potential for improving production in the region as well as other tropical and subtropical environments

Yonghong Guo, Matthew Kramer and Margaret Pooler

. Disease-resistant taxa have been found for use in sour and sweet cherry breeding programs ( Stegmeir et al., 2014 ; Wharton et al., 2003 ), and detached leaf assays have been developed ( Wharton et al., 2003 ). A field screening of six popular ornamental

persimmon ( FAOSTAT, 2013 ). An organized chestnut breeding program started in 1947 at the National Institute of Fruit Tree Science in Japan and continues at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) Institute of Fruit Tree Science

Peter Cousins

Breeding rootstocks for fruit crops is slower than scion breeding in the same species. This is due to the testing requirements of rootstocks that reduce the opportunity for comprehensive first tests on individual plants and to expanding selection criteria for rootstocks. Rootstock breeding is a relatively new discipline of fruit crop improvement and novel functions of rootstocks still are being understood and developed; this increases the requirements of rootstocks without diminishing the testing requirements.

Milad El Riachy, Luis Rallo, Raúl de la Rosa and Lorenzo León

can reach up to 13 years under natural growing conditions ( Bellini, 1993 ). This long period is the main reason for the scarcity of new olive varieties generated by olive breeding programs in comparison with other fruit species ( Barranco and Rallo

Hiroko Hamada, Keisuke Nonaka, Terutaka Yoshioka and Masahiko Yamada

one-fourth of that in 1975. To maintain and develop the citrus industry in Japan, it is indispensable to develop new mandarin cultivars with large fruits and high sugar content in addition to ease of eating. The citrus breeding program in Japan began